My three favorite events on the sports calendar are the Indiana high school boys basketball tournament, the first two rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and the Indy 500.
The first and the last have been jerked around with so much by seemingly well-intentioned people trying to make them better that the events have lost a lot of their luster. I follow both pretty closely, but shudder to imagine how much more time I'd spend following them if they were as they once were, if that makes sense.
The second one, meanwhile, is still pretty cool, but I've got a complaint about the peripheral coverage of it. Writing about and projecting the NCAA tournament is a 24-7 industry, and I've got to admit to more than a bit of fatigue as a result. There are several folks on the Internet who projected the tournament bracket weekly, daily and eventually multiple times a day, and the constant stream of "they're in/they're out" just makes me tired.
(Keep in mind that these folks aren't projecting the outcomes of the games - they are projecting who will play whom and who will get left out. Geez. This would be like me projecting the 43 starters for NASCAR's season-ending Homestead race every week until the end of the season.)
Fortunately, the brackets are finally out (I may post thoughts later, adding to your fatigue), and while there will be plenty of additional overanalysis of the actual brackets between now and the tournament's start, for the most part everyone can just shut up and watch them play.
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